Ash receiver



Jan. 21, 1930.

A. KOLAR 1,744,123

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ASH RECEIVER Application filed December 29, 1926. Serial No. 157,701.

This. invention relates to ash receivers for use in dining rooms, clubs, in elevators, telephonebooths, in automobiles, railway smoking cars and which may be placed on a table or other support or may be attached to a Wall.

The object of the invention being to provide a device of the above described class having novel features for the convenience of smokers.

Features of the invention are to be found in means for supporting, temporarily, cigars or cigarettes, means for clipping cigar tips, means for supporting a container for matches, means for expeditiously discharging or dumping accumulatedcigar and cigarette ashes, butts, burnt matches, etc., and means conveniently arranged inward of the rests for cigars or cigarettes, for brushing the ash therefrom. 7

These ash brushes form an important feature of the invention and consist each of spring wire fingers depending from a coil whose terminal is anchored or cast in or with the casin of the device, each tongue preferably termmating at its free end in a loop or coil which forms the brush, over which the fire end of a cigar or cigarette may be passed to dislodge burnt ash therefrom.

Another feature of the invention is found in the provision of a hinged bottom locked to the body portion by-a catch which when released permits the bottom to drop and empty the entire contents of the receiver.

The invention has for its further objects to provide certain other novel features, all of which will be hereinafter defined.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into effect, the same will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment thereof, in which Fig. 1, is a perspective view of my improved ash receiver, the match box holder at the top thereof being shown in an empty condition.

Fig. 2, is a central vertical section of the device, showing a box of matches in section inserted in said holder.

50 Referring to the drawings, I provide a dished plate 10, hinged at 11, to a cylindrical casing 12, which is closed at the top and open at the bottom, the normal closure for the bottom being the plate 10 which is locked to the casing by a spring carried catch 13, engaging a hook 14, on the plate 10, said catch being operated by a push button 15, projecting through a free opening 16, in the side of the casing. It is obvious that holding the casing 12, free, as over a waste basket, etc., and releasing catch 13 by push button 15, the bottom 10 will drop into the position shown by the dot and dash lines in Fig. 2 and the refuse will drop into the waste basket.

The casing may be formed with any suitable ornamental top 17, a reduced extension 18, having a threaded bore 19, to receive a screw 20 to secure a match box holder 21 thereto. The holder may comprise an outer U plate 22 and an inner U plate 23, seated therein and positioned with their sides in spaced relation,

the inner plate having shorter sides than the outer one, so that a cover 24, of a match box, may be received between them, while the inner part of the box rests on the shorter sides of the inner plate to support it in projective relation to expose the matches above the cover, after which the upper end of this inner part of the box may be torn off.

The top of the casing 12, may be formed with a bore 26, to receive a plunger pin 27, having a reduced portion 28, forming a shoulder 29, under which is placed a s ring 30, coiled on said reduced portion an resting on a cross guide bar 31, through which the said reduced portion passes to be connected to a cutter blade 32, which co-acts with a lower blade 33, to sever tips from cigars, which may be thrust through an opening 34.

The upper cutter blade is slidable in parallel gui es 35 fixed to the inner face of the casing 12.

The casing is further formed with diametrically opposite parts or circular openings 36, here shown as four in number, in which cross sectionally curved cigar or cigarette rests 37, are received and held by suitable brackets 38. The rests 37 project radially from the casing.

An important feature of my invention resides in the provision of ash brushes 39, here shown as wire loops formed at the free end of spring wire fingers 40, formed into spring coils 41, whose terminals 42 are cast or anchored in the metal of the casing 12, the lower portion of which constitutes an ash receiving chamber 43; Said chamber is also adapted to receive cigar and cigarette butts, burnt matches and other incidental refuse when smoking.

The terms and expressions employed, are used as terms of description and not of limitation, and I have no intention, in the use of such terms and ex ressions, of excludin any mechanical e uiva cuts of the features s own and describe or portions thereof nize that various structural modifications are possible within the scope of the invention claimed.

What I claim as new, is

1. In an ash receiver having a casing with ports and cigar rests arranged in its side walls, a dish like base for said casing forming the bottom thereof, said base being of larger size than the circumference of said casing and its protruding edges being upwardly inclined around the bottom ed e of said casing; a hinge joint between sai base and said casing, and a spring catch device between the two, normally securin the base to the easing but being adapts to be operable from the outside of the casing to release the base from the casing when desired.

2. In an ash receiver as set forth in claim 1, said casin having a closed top and s ring ash brushesiaving shanks with loope ends secured on the inside of said top and depending back of said ports within said casin 3. In an ash receiver as set forth in c aim 1, said spring catch device comprising a relatively stationary catch element on said base having an inwardly inclined hook end at its u per end, a flat spring secured to the insi e of said casing and having an outwardly turned hook end at its lower end, adapted to cooperate with the hook on said element on the base, and a slidable pin protruding through the wall of the casing wherebyto o erate said fiat spring and release the hooks rom one another from the outside of said casing.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 14th day of December, A. D. 1926.

ANTHONY KOLAR.

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